Neckband portion for neckties and method of producing the same.



HfCHENEY.

, NECKBAND PORTION FOR NECKTIES AND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE SAME.

' APPLICATION FILED MAR. 16. ms.

1 %@,7u Patented June 25, 1918.

of producing the same,

HOWELL CHENEY, OF SOUTH MANCHESTER, CONNECTICUT,

NEGKBAND PORTION FOR NEQKTIESAND METHOD OF PRODUCING THE income.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ju 2 1913.

Application filed March 16, 1918. Serial No. 222,873.

To all whomc't may concern:

Be it known that I, HOWELL CH N Y, a citizen of the United States, residing at South Manchester, county of Hartford, State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Neckband Portions for Neckties and Methods of Producing the Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

y invention relates to neckband portions for neckties and the method of producing the same and has for its object to provide, a new and improved neckband and a method whereby such neckbands may be produced from a strip of material without waste. A further object of my invention is to produce without waste a plurality of neckband portions each provided with an intermediate part composed of two connected plies and bearing on the.

outside of both plies a smooth or frictionless finish, and having at each end two single ply selvaged projections, the projections on one or the same end being of unequal lengths.

The following is a description of myinvention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 represents my new and improved neckband;

Fig. 2 represents a strip from which a plurality of such neckbands can be cut without waste;

Fig. 3 represents the sect-ions formedafter dividing the strip of Fig. 2 in accordance with my invention;

Fig. 4 represents a modification of the strip shown in Fig. 2, and.

Fig. 5 shows a fo-urdn-hand necktie with one of my improved neckbands incorporated therein.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, Fig. 1 represents a neckband having a portion 1 of two ply character bearing a satin or other smooth or anti-friction surface on the outside of both plies, and two projections 2, 2, the former being longer than the latter. The longer projection 2 is intended to be secured to the back side of the longer of the two separately formed tying ends of a necktie. The shorter projection 2 is intended to be secured to the back side of the short end. Upon the other side of the neckband are two other projections 3, 3, adapted to be secured to the front sides of the respective tying ends at points adj acentto the body 1 of the neckband portion. When the section 1 is formed from two plies, connected only at their edges, these portions 3, 3 may be turned into the ends thereof so as to produce a finished appear-. ance at the extremity of the sections 1, as shown in dots turned under effect as shown at the right hand end of Fig. 5.

In producing my improved neckbandportion, I first form a strip, as shown in Fig. 2, preferably woven so as to be of two ply character throughout, and consisting of a series of. portions 1 having two connected plies, and of intermediate portions having separated plies. In so weaving the strip, I use two shuttles, which act upon separate warps, so as to produce what is known as, a two ply fabric. While forming the portion 1, having two connected plies, I preferably let the upper shuttle of a two shuttle batten supply the upper ply or top warp during each throw of the batten, and the bottom shuttle supply the bottom warp, and the two plies are bound together by alternately binding the filling of each shuttle with threads of the warp called binders, such binders running between the extreme edges of the strip, and the result being that the two plies are firmly bound together. These binders are located at the edges of both plies of the strip, though some binders may be located in the body of the strip. After this portion 1 is formed I cause the threads of the warps to be woven so that none of them intersect, bothof the two plies so as to form binders, and thus produce two disconnected selvaged plies each of a length which is equal to the extension 2 plus the extension 3. I then weave anotheriportion 1, in the manner described, and then as before weave so .as to form two separate selvaged plies, each having a length equal to the extension 2 plus extension 3. I then weave another portion 1 and then the separate plies for a distance equal to the sum 3 and 2 as before, and continue so to weave indefinitely. The extension 2, it is to be noted, is longer than the extension 2 so that the successive portions having separated plies are of different lengths. After the strip is thus woven, I cut the upper of the separate or disconnected plies along the transverse lines at the points 4:, 4, and cut the lower of the two separate plies along the transverse lines at the points 5, 5, thus separating the strips into the inFig. 5, or the ends may be so as to produce a pointed;

sections shown in Fig. 3 and producing a plurality of neckband portions as shown in Fig. 1 without having wasted any material.

Instead of weaving the strip as shown in Fig. 2,'I may, if desired, form a strip composed of portions having two connected plies sponding to that described in connection with Fig. 2 to form parts such as shown in Fig. 3.

In utilizing my neckband portion to form a necktie, I separately form two tying ends 9, 10 by cutting and folding in the ordinary manner and, inserting portions of the tying ends within the ends of a portion 1 of Fig. 1, sew the ends of the portion 1 to the inserted portions of those tying ends by stitches 11, 11' sewing the longer extension 2 to the back side of the larger tying end with stitches'which do not pass through the front side of that tying end, and the shorter extension 2 to the, back side of the smaller tying end. Instead of turning in the end 3 so it renters the portion 1, I may fold it under so as to produce a pointed effect, as shown at the right hand end of Fig. 5, securing it to the tying end by stitches 11 which pass completely through the neckband portion and also through the inserted extremity of the tying end. The corners at the ends of the extensions 2, 2 are turned in to produce a pointed finish, and such extensions are blind-stitched t0 the back side of the shorter tying end by stitches 12.

The above described strip of Fig. 2 can be woven on a two shuttle loom known as a double bank batten loom.

The band portions are preferably one and one-eighth (1%) inches in width, the portions 1 being eleven (11) inches in length, the extensions 3, 3 one-half (e inch in length and the extensions 2' and 2 being respectively two and one-half and fourteen (14:) inches in length, so that the strip of Fig. 2 is 1%; inches wide and made up of sections of 11 inches, 3 inches and 14? inches 1 respectively.

. As will be evident to those skilled in the art, my invention permits of various modi- Qopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. 0.

fications without departing from the spirit thereof or the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a neckband portion for neckties, a medial portion having at each of its ends two separated extensions, the two extensions at one end being of substantially unequal lengths.

2. In a neckband portion for neckties, a medial portion having at each of its ends two separated extensions, the two extensions at either end being of substantially unequal lengths.

3. The method of making a neckband portion for neckties, which consists in forming a strip composed of a plurality of sections of two types, sections of one type alternating with sections of the other type, and one type differing from the other in that it has separated plies, and then severing the sections composed of separated plies, the lines of severance of two plies of each alternate separated ply section being relatively displaced so as to form on one end of each neckband portion so formed two extensions of unequal length.

4. The method of making a neckband portion for neckties, which consists in forming a strip composed of a plurality of sections of two types, sections of one type alternating with sections of the other type, and one type differing from the other in that it has separated plies, and then severing the sections composed of separated plies, the lines of severance of two plies of each successive separated ply section being relatively-displaced so as to form on each end of each neckband portion so formed two extensions of unequal length.

5. The method of making a neckband portion for neckties, which consists in forming a strip composed of a plurality of sections of two types, sections of one type alternating with sections of the other type, and one type differing from the other in that it has separated plies, alternate separated ply sections being of one length and the other separated ply sections being of a shorter length, and then severing the sections composed of separated plies, the lines of severance of two plies of each successive separated ply section being relatively displaced so as to form on each end of each neckband portion so formed two extensions of unequal length.

HOWELL CHENEY.

Commissioner of Patents, 

